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his heart may be made to bound with indesciibabU' 

 joy by fltidiu<;- the neatly constructed nests and ej?.s^s of 

 species which, the eyes of man — so far as written 

 records are concerned — have never beheld. 



FINE TERRITORY IN WINTER. 



The student of natural history, if his wants are in the 

 liiu' of feathered specimens for the cabinet, can travel 

 the rich ajfricultural or wild' unimproved tracts of 

 I'ennsyjvania, and secure much material. Different 

 si>eci(\s of birds retire in the summer season to the 

 boreal wilds, where they rear their young and are com- 

 paratively free fr-om man's despoilin<2: hand. Aswinter 

 ai)proaches these birds migrate southward from tlic 

 land of the Eskimo and savage Polar Bear to glean a 

 livelihood which, so far as many of them are ccn- 

 cerned, is a great boon to miankind. 



WINTER BIRDS. 



Besides these natives of the Arctic solitudes, nu- 

 merous other species, some residents of Pennsylvania, 

 and others which, for the most part, breed north or 

 soutli of our boundaries, are present with us in goodly 

 numbers, as is evidenced by the fact that the winter 

 birds in PenLsylvania numfber approximately about 

 one-third of the bird fauna. 



SOME ANIMALS WHICH HAVE BEEN EXTERMINATED. 



Manyyears ago Pennsylvania contained the massive, 

 shaggy-coated Buffalo, the bulky and big-antlered Elk. 

 and the fleet footed and clean limbed Virginia Deer, 

 which, with other kinds of furred, feathered and finny 

 game, then so abundnnt. furnished bounteous repasts 

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